by Claire Diamond
A 16-year-old boy and an 80-year-old man have died following a light aircraft crash near Loch Lomond in Scotland.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash near the village of Drymen, in the Stirling Council area, at about 16:45 BST on Friday.
The boy and man were pronounced dead, and their next of kin have been informed, police said.
Meanwhile, the flight school has paid tribute to the ‘legendary’ instructor and teen student who were killed in a plane crash near Loch Lomond on Friday 
Leading Edge Flight Training, which operated the Piper Tomahawk II that was being used for the flight, said they are “devastated” following the crash and the loss of two “close members of our Leading Edge family”.
Temporary airspace restrictions are currently in place over the area while the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) conducts its inquiries.
An AAIB spokesperson said: “A team has travelled to the accident site near Drymen, north of Glasgow, to make inquiries and gather evidence as part of the process of conducting a safety investigation.”
Officers were at the scene, near Old Drymen Road, on Saturday, and have cordoned off a gate leading to a hill where the crash appears to have happened.
A police van and a team of officers were seen travelling up to the site on Saturday morning.
The Piper Tomahawk II aircraft is registered to Leading Edge Flight Training in Renfrew, according to the Civil Aviation Authority’s aircraft register
It took off from Glasgow Airport on Friday afternoon at 16:17 and stopped transmitting at 16:37, a few miles north east of Drymen.
The plane had earlier taken off from Cumbernauld Airport at 11:46, before flying 15 minutes to Glasgow Airport.
It stayed there until about 13:00, before doing a two-hour flight north east to Newport on Tay then turning round and heading back to Glasgow.
It was on the ground at the airport for just over an hour before it took off again and started its final flight.
Stuart Abernethy told BBC Scotland News that he witnessed the last few moments of the plane’s journey from his driveway.
“I was standing in the drive and I heard an aircraft engine over-revving,” he said.
“I looked up… and I saw probably for about the last 10 seconds a light aircraft coming down in a spiral. I didn’t see it land and I didn’t hear anything – but I just saw it vanish from sight.
“There was no smoke, no impact sound or anything like that. And then nothing.”
He added: “It was low and it wasn’t in a sort of dive trajectory, it just literally fell out of the sky in a spiral with the engine revving and then a total silence after that.
“Normally we hear training flights and hear them recover and minutes later they appear and you’re relieved. But there was just deathly silence after that.”
Later, his daughter saw the news about the crash on social media.
“It was very unpleasant to see, it’s scary to see actually – and then when you learn that some people had lost their lives, it’s a very distressing experience.”
Gavin Birch-Williams, managing director of Glasgow Airport, said: “We are aware of an incident involving a light aircraft that departed from Glasgow Airport.
“This is a deeply tragic event, and the thoughts and heartfelt sympathies from all at Glasgow Airport are with the friends and families affected.”
Drymen resident Colin Cameron told BBC Scotland News he knew there was a major incident because of all the emergency service activity.
He said he had seen police, ambulances, a serious incident unit and specialist fire engines, as well as two helicopters.
It was not until Saturday morning that he heard it had been a light aircraft crash, which he described as “awful”.
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